The Temple Lodge Bali

... he was going to split it with us. But sure enough, that is what the deal was!

The guy handed over 250,000rp (= NZD$36) before we even jumped into his nice air-conditioned car. We were also told that we would also receive 2 T-shirts at the end – or get a 75,000rp gift voucher to use in a supermarket. This is sounding better by the minute! On the drive there, he advised us the best way to answer all the questions. (We have been ...

... few minutes later Mike and I decided to stop at a restaurant with a gorgeous view of the lakes and right when we parked, we noticed that the Polish couple decided to do the same. Since Michael and I grabbed the last table available we figured it would be polite to share the table with them. We had a pleasant conversation over coffee and satay and we were even offered to be helped around during our visit to Krakow in October. I should say the couple and I had a pleasant conversation ...

Enjoyed our last big breakfast this morning, Trudy turned veggie (When she remembers) so didn't have a bacon sarnie! Yesterday we went for a long walk along the shore line, Max went into sea, got swept off her feet and ended up with a ton of sand in her swimming bottoms that looked like she had pooed herself (Or had she!) The sea was warm but very rough and deep, have seen blue jellyfish so other than a ...

... 081338737344). I had a thought of staying here but it never happened. Owned by a Balinese guy with his German wife. Food at the Cafe Pandan restaurant is OK. Nice view. Very rough waves hitting the sharp rocks. Nice little white sand beach to just do sun bathing and relaxing.

What to do:
Diving, snorkeling, surfing, boat trip, photo shooting, sub bathing, and whatever else you like...

... a ticket (plus an apology from the agent for the tickets "being more expensive than usual") it was cheaper than going over land...the downside was that we were skipping a few places in Java "but maybe we'll see those on the way back to Jakarta". Yes, the Indonesian island paradise of Bali... "Sorry, no room here...big festival, we closed!" Hmmm, that didn't sound good. "What, you not know tomorrow Nyepi Day??...Everything closed!!" Oddly enough, the ...

... day than anything else except accomodation. After Ubud we headed to Ellies guest house in Nusa Dua, lovely hotel, great hosts, definately the nicest hotel we stayed at in Bali. Indonesian food was starting to get to me so it was time to try some real food. However the Hindu monkeys didnt like this and forced us to leave for KL. Thank god for our Air Asia friends.

... Processing and farming, the place to see various of plantation such as coffee arabica, coffee robusta, pineapple, Balinese snake fruite (salak), plain Balinese potatoes, star fruit, cacao, jack fruit, durian tree and etc, experience to see how to make Balinese coffee, try the best of Balinese coffee or ...

... the rich in Indonesia. Another goal was to purchase our plane tickets back to Jakarta for Nov 27th, the day we are flying to Bangkok. We would've done this from Padangbai, but the Internet had been down across the entire town the entire four days we had spent there so far. We did manage to find working Internet in the tourist town to the north called Candidasa at a cost of 400 Rp/minute (about five times what we paid in Ubud). However when we tried to book two ...

... my passport and bid me farewell. I was free to go !!! Don't know what it was about, but I was now on my way back to London. And finally Seeing a little bit of Bali was great, and it now makes me want to come back and see more and also Java and Sumatra, but a dream has been realised, and in the words of the Aussie band Redgum. You've been to Paris and you've been to Boston You've been to Fiji and you've been to London But you can't impress me Cause I've been to Bali to !!!

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